Sometimes I would like to cry. I close my eyes. Why weren't we designed so that we can close our ears as well? (Perhaps because we would never open them.) Is there some way that I could accelerate my evolution and develop earlids?

Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.

I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.

I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.

Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.

Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.